Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Demarcation Problem, Falsifiability, Verificationism
27 Jul 2012
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Mill"s method: method of agreement , method of difference , concomitant variations -> proportional/reverse proportional, method of residue. Know how to translate english to pl and vice versa. Test for consistency (main connectives are true) and validity. Deductive validity: when it is impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false. If conclusion is true argument is deductively valid. Goodman: language is part of the problem gravity is weather . Deontology: rightness or wrongness of act is based entirely on rules. Consequenctialism: an action is right or wrong in so far it is good (pleasure) or bad. Probability: combination vs. permutation, ordinal rankings, percentiles, calculate possibilities, conditional probability. Media: question on interpretive framework/biases, bias on news. Evaluations: number of incidences/cases, variety of cases, number of properties in common, relevance of properties, disanalogy (uncommon things, premise and conclusion strength.
